Senior Python Developer Job Trends

Senior Python Developer
UK

The median Senior Python Developer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 725 713
Rank change year-on-year +138 -12 +206
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Python Developer 87 66 67
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.084% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.089% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 59 50 62
10th Percentile - £52,500 £57,625
25th Percentile £64,000 £52,813 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £67,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -10.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £87,500 £94,688 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £107,375 £104,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 44,309 74,419 56,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.65% 95.24% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 26,050 44,613 44,179
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Senior Python Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Senior Python Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Python Developer job vacancies in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Python Developer over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Python Developer in the UK

Senior Python Developer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Python Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 19 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +129 87 £77,500 +10.71% 32
London +108 79 £78,750 +24.02% 15
Work from Home +79 45 £64,000 -20.00% 19
UK excluding London +90 8 £60,000 -14.29% 22
North of England +26 5 £60,000 -25.00% 14
Yorkshire - 3 £60,000 - 10
North West 0 2 £60,000 -25.00% 4
South East +36 1 - - 5
West Midlands - 1 £70,000 - 1
Midlands - 1 £70,000 - 1
East of England - 1 £75,000 -

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 September 2025, Senior Python Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Senior Python Developer in the job title.

1 87 (100.00%) Python
2 39 (44.83%) AWS
3 36 (41.38%) Finance
4 34 (39.08%) CI/CD
5 33 (37.93%) Test Automation
6 31 (35.63%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (35.63%) Serverless
7 30 (34.48%) Agile
8 29 (33.33%) QA
8 29 (33.33%) Flask
9 26 (29.89%) DynamoDB
10 25 (28.74%) React
11 24 (27.59%) Data Science
12 23 (26.44%) RESTful
12 23 (26.44%) TDD
13 21 (24.14%) Pair Programming
13 21 (24.14%) Publishing
13 21 (24.14%) Scrum
13 21 (24.14%) Azure
13 21 (24.14%) Elasticsearch
13 21 (24.14%) Operational Stability
13 21 (24.14%) Tech for Good
13 21 (24.14%) Health Technology
14 20 (22.99%) TypeScript
14 20 (22.99%) Continuous Delivery
14 20 (22.99%) Swagger
14 20 (22.99%) Front Office
14 20 (22.99%) C++
14 20 (22.99%) Software Testing
15 19 (21.84%) Hedge funds

Senior Python Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.45%) Jupyter
Business Applications
1 4 (4.60%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 39 (44.83%) AWS
2 31 (35.63%) AWS Lambda
2 31 (35.63%) Serverless
3 21 (24.14%) Azure
4 8 (9.20%) GCP
5 5 (5.75%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.60%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (4.60%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (2.30%) GitHub
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.15%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.89%) DynamoDB
2 21 (24.14%) Elasticsearch
3 13 (14.94%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.05%) RDBMS
4 7 (8.05%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.30%) Tick Data
6 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Git
General
1 36 (41.38%) Finance
2 21 (24.14%) Health Technology
2 21 (24.14%) Publishing
2 21 (24.14%) Tech for Good
3 20 (22.99%) Front Office
4 15 (17.24%) Banking
5 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
6 8 (9.20%) Manufacturing
6 8 (9.20%) Marketing
7 7 (8.05%) Electronics
7 7 (8.05%) Telecoms
8 6 (6.90%) Social Skills
9 4 (4.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (4.60%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.30%) Back Office
10 2 (2.30%) Games
11 1 (1.15%) Advertising
11 1 (1.15%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (33.33%) Flask
2 25 (28.74%) React
3 23 (26.44%) RESTful
4 20 (22.99%) Swagger
5 18 (20.69%) Django
6 17 (19.54%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 13 (14.94%) FastAPI
8 10 (11.49%) PySpark
8 10 (11.49%) REST
9 4 (4.60%) pytest
10 3 (3.45%) CrewAI
10 3 (3.45%) LangChain
10 3 (3.45%) Matplotlib
10 3 (3.45%) NumPy
10 3 (3.45%) Pandas
10 3 (3.45%) pydantic
10 3 (3.45%) PyXLL
10 3 (3.45%) scikit-learn
10 3 (3.45%) Seaborn
10 3 (3.45%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Hedge funds
2 18 (20.69%) Data Structures
3 17 (19.54%) Algorithms
3 17 (19.54%) Equities
3 17 (19.54%) Management Information System
4 7 (8.05%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (20.69%) Linux
2 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (39.08%) CI/CD
2 33 (37.93%) Test Automation
3 30 (34.48%) Agile
4 24 (27.59%) Data Science
5 23 (26.44%) TDD
6 21 (24.14%) Operational Stability
6 21 (24.14%) Pair Programming
6 21 (24.14%) Scrum
7 20 (22.99%) Continuous Delivery
7 20 (22.99%) Software Testing
8 18 (20.69%) OOP
9 17 (19.54%) Low Latency
9 17 (19.54%) OO
9 17 (19.54%) Order Management
10 14 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (14.94%) Visualisation
12 12 (13.79%) Containerisation
13 11 (12.64%) Mentoring
13 11 (12.64%) Software Engineering
14 10 (11.49%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) Python
2 20 (22.99%) C++
2 20 (22.99%) TypeScript
3 8 (9.20%) SQL
4 6 (6.90%) Java
5 5 (5.75%) C#
6 3 (3.45%) Bicep
7 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.15%) Bash
8 1 (1.15%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 11 (12.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.34%) Terraform
3 4 (4.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (13.79%) Databricks
2 8 (9.20%) Google
3 7 (8.05%) SAP
4 4 (4.60%) SimCorp